Li Yan's troops soon dispersed, entered the streets and alleys, and began to confirm and register the designated lijia. And Lu Xiru did send a supervisor, that is, the yamen in the yamen. These people say that Li Yan is almost the same, and naturally they can't supervise anything.

As for the harassment of the people by the soldiers during the household registration, the army naturally has inspectors. There are also inspectors sent by Li Yan, if they want to cover up, it should be more difficult. Moreover, there is a mechanism for ordinary people to complain directly, and there are very few hooligans among the soldiers, so on the whole, this inventory is still very peaceful. It only has a slight impact on the normal life of the people in the city.

Since the entire population had to be registered, the soldiers had to register the elderly, women, and children at home, and then go and register the men who had returned from work in the evening. In addition, in order to ensure accurate registration, a curfew was imposed, and no one was allowed to walk on the street after the end of the day.

In addition to the inventory of the permanent population, inns and other places will also go to the inventory, and after registration, a detailed investigation will be done to determine whether these people are lying.

Li Yan is sending people to register his household registration, and the big case of Zhang Dianshi's murder has come to a standstill. Hu Zhutou couldn't find any clues, and the search in the city was fruitless. There was too much time before, and there was no special attention at the city gate, and there was no clue.

The key is that Zhang Dianshi's family still has a lot of assets, and they don't want their family wealth to be exposed to the eyes of the government. Therefore, in the investigation, it is also secretive, and the clouds and mountains are covered with fog. He also bribed Hu to arrest the head, so that the case was always in chaos. In order to close the case, he had to put the blame on the possible thieves.

The household clearance was completed in one day, but the follow-up investigation lasted two days, but several suspicious people were identified.

North Gate City Gate Tower.

Li Yan asked a young man, "You said you came to join your relatives?" But instead of staying with a relative, you live in a stranger's house. Why? ”

The young man replied, "My relatives are gone, and I don't know where they went, so I found a family in the city to live." The inn is too expensive, and I don't have much money. ”

"We found out the names of the people you provided, and none of them are your relatives." Li Yan continued to ask: "And the address you said, the people there have lived there for thirty years and have not moved. What do you say? ”

"I, I'm mistaken." The young man said in a bit of a panic. The men had investigated everything, and he felt that he had been exposed.

"Then think again?" Li Yan said with a smile: "We can find out everyone in the city, and it won't take much effort." ”

The young man lowered his head and stopped talking.

Li Yan waited for a while and said, "You'd better say it yourself, otherwise if you are punished, you will suffer and talk about it, and you will feel a loss when you think about it." Of course, it's better to say that it's true, or you still have to suffer. ”

The young man glanced up at Li Yan, and then lowered his head again, still silent and did not speak.

Li Yan instructed Li Mu: "Take him down, it seems that he will not die if he doesn't see the Yellow River." ”

"Okay," Li Mu nodded, "At most, tomorrow, I guarantee that he will recruit everything." "His self-confidence comes from their various tortures, nailing bamboo sticks, dropping planes, tiger chairs, chili water, cannon branding, standing cages, etc., as long as you flip through the history books of the cool officials to know how to get it.

After bringing the young man down, another middle-aged man was brought in. The dress is not bad, but the temperament on the body is a little worse.

"Have you ever bought or sold before?" Li Yan asked with a smile: "Your leader is too careless, how can you pretend to be a businessman?" ”

The middle-aged man was calm and said with a smile: "I haven't done a big deal before, it's just a small fight, this is the first time I have come out to do such a big deal." So I didn't understand anything, which made the adults laugh. ”

Li Yan raised his hand with a smile and said, "Forget it, you are also an old Jianghu." I won't ask you, it's easier to go straight to the punishment. ”

"This lord spares his life, it's really the first time I've come out to do business." The middle-aged man immediately knelt down and cried, and tears immediately flowed out.

Li Yan waved his hand and asked people to take the middle-aged man down.

"These are basically spies for thieves." Li Mou said: "They used various methods to sneak into the city, bribe officers and soldiers, and create chaos. The county seat was basically fought in this way, and very few were directly attacked. ”

Li Yan said helplessly: "It seems that we are just a piece of fat, and everyone who looks at it is greedy." ”

"That's not," Li Mu said proudly: "Which of the prefectures and counties in Henan can have a bumper harvest?" Who has the spare capacity to resettle the displaced people? If you can do these two things, you must have a lot of food and materials. It is when the thieves see this that they are eyeing us. ”

Li Yan asked, "How is the situation in Suizhou?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with the iron mine. However, there are still several bandits in the entire territory of Guide, including the team split from the 'one dragon', and the battalion head left by Yuan Laoshan. Su Jing has just arrived in Guide City, and the team of people who are holding us will be his guards. Li Mu reported.

"Let them come back as soon as possible!" Li Yan smiled and said, "If he wants us to help, he should come and ask us, it's not okay to dig the foot of the wall." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send them a letter quickly." Their families are here, and no one will disobey orders. ”

At this time, Sun Sifu came to report: "General, Master Chen asks to see you." ”

Li Yan said casually: "Then let him come up." ”

After a while, Master Chen, who had a somewhat gray beard, was brought in. He did not wear an official uniform, but a satin civilian dress and a square scarf, looking like an old squire.

"I've seen the general." Master Chen said.

Li Yan also arched his hand and said: "Why is Master Chen not on duty in the yamen?" ”

"This," Master Chen said, "the contemptible people have specially come to see General Li." ”

"Oh? What are the instructions of Master Chen? Li Yan asked with a smile.

Master Chen was silent for a while, but still spoke: "After the end of the term of office, the contemptible person will be sent to the elder." So, please General Li raise your noble hand. ”

He has seen clearly in the past few days that Li Yan's control of Qixian County is unimaginable to these officials. Li Yan can use the army to check and register the people in the county town within a day, and he can also make the officials and officials below completely not report to them, the chief officials, so that they will become deaf and blind. So he decided to quit, and he wanted to take the money he had earned in the past few years and go home to retire.

Li Yan said with a smile: "This is not necessary. Master Chen will continue to serve as an official, and if you take it, I will also give Master Chen a sum of money here. If Master Chen resigns, and another ignorant person comes back, I will have to go through some more procedures, which will also be troublesome. ”

Master Chen thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Then thank General Li." He didn't ask how much it was, and he didn't care. The only reason he stayed was because Qixian was much safer than his hometown of Shandong. Shandong not only has to worry about the Xiangma bandits, but also has to worry about the Qing soldiers entering the customs, the Qing soldiers in the twelfth year of the attack is too tragic, and the northern part of Shandong has almost become a ghost domain, which makes people shudder.